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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7813334 | Method and apparatus for co-socket telephony A network based communication system allows a voice-over-IP (VoIP) packet data connection to be established by sending a subscriber address to a remote database server. The database server converts the subscriber address to an Internet address and informs the wirele... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7813335 | Internet protocol trunk groups A system includes a core routing engine operable to receive a call setup request and identify one or more IP trunk groups through which the call setup request can be routed, select one of the one or more identified IP trunk groups and route the call setup request to... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7813332 | Voice call alternative routing through PSTN and internet networks The advanced intelligent network (AIN) to determine routing of voice calls alternatively between the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and a data packet network, such as the Internet, in accordance with the quality of service existing in the data packet netwo... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7813333 | Method and apparatus for co-socket telephony A communication system method allows a voice-over-IP (VoIP) packet data connection to be established by sending a subscriber address to a remote database server. The database server converts the subscriber address to an Internet address and informs the wireless hand... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7808978 | Voice over internet protocol (VoIP) telephone apparatus and communication system for carrying VoIP traffic A method of establishing Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications is provided. The method includes establishing a virtual circuit to carry VoIP traffic via a first Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) session and to carry other data traffic via a ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7808977 | Network telephony interface systems between data network telephony and plain old telephone service A computerized telephony bridge unit has a Data Network Telephony (DNT) Port and a Connection Oriented/Switched Telephony (COST) trunk port, each associated with circuitry for receiving a placing calls in the data format required by connected networks. The bridge un... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7808975 | System and method for history driven optimization of web services communication A system, method and computer program product for communicating Web-Services (WS) messages. First there is allocated an identical amount of a cache history storage at each sender and receiver device for storing a history of communicated WS message strings. At the se... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7808976 | Voice communication system and voice communication method A voice communication system, which is connected to a LAN to which communication terminals are connected and to a public network to which telephones are connected, is provided with a communication server between the LAN and public network having different protocols ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7808974 | Method and apparatus for Voice over Internet Protocol telephony using a virtual private network An apparatus and methods for utilizing a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone with a built-in VPN client is disclosed. A VoIP telephone with an internal VPN client module incorporated into the VoIP telephone establishes a VPN tunnel directly from the VoIP t... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7808973 | Data network interface and communication devices having a data network interface Line-oriented communication devices are coupled by a data network interface to a packet-oriented data network. The data network interface has a data network connection for coupling a data network cable to the data network, as well as a communication network connecti... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7804817 | Delayed onset of voice activity detection for jitter adaptation Disclosed are various systems and methods for controlling a voice activity detector. In one example approach, a method is provided in which a voice over internet protocol (VOIP) session is initiated in a first gateway with a second gateway. A plurality of jitter ada... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7804816 | Method and apparatus for accessing communication data relevant to a target entity identified by a number string Service resource items (49) for use in call setup in a telephone system are held on servers (58) that are connected to a computer network which is logically distinct from the telephone system infrastructure; this computer network may, for example, make... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7804815 | System and apparatus for telecommunication A system for IP telephony that utilizes distributed gateways instead of centralized gateways for communication between IP Telephones on a Packet Based Digital Network (PBDN) and Telephones on a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). The system is based on the use... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7804819 | Method for implementing voice over IP through an electronic device connected to a packed switched network A method for implementing Voice over IP through an electronic device including the phase of sampling a voice communication in a corresponding sampled communication; encoding the sampled communication into corresponding encoded data; decoding the corresponding encode... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7804818 | Method for maintaining signaling history in a Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) network A method for maintaining signaling history of application servers to be invoked and applications to be provided in a VoIP network. In one illustrative embodiment, the signaling history of application servers that have been invoked and/or applications that have been ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7801116 | System, device, and method for providing call forwarding in dual subscription mode A method and system for providing interworking between a first and a second network of different types, preferably an IMS and a CS (Circuit-Switched) network. A call received by the first network and directed to a terminal unregistered from the first network, is for... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7801147 | Apparatus and method for providing user datagram protocol/internet protocol-based A1 interface in a mobile communication system A system and method for providing a UDP/IP (User Datagram Protocol/Internet Protocol)-based A1 interface in a mobile communication system are provided, in which a BSC controls an A1 interface connection by an A1 interface message using the UDP/IP as a data link laye... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7801115 | Method and apparatus for data mining in a communication network Method and apparatus for data mining in a communication network is described. In one example, telephony service and data service is provided to an entity via a communication network. Customer specific information is collected for accesses to the entity via the commu... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7801114 | Method and apparatus for providing network based interior design application A method and apparatus for enabling a subscriber to send a video scan of an interior space to a network based interior design application are disclosed. In one embodiment, the network may create a blueprint of the room based on the video scan provided by the subscri... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7801112 | Method and apparatus for accessing and interacting with an internet web page A facility is provided for interfacing the Internet with a telecommunications network and vice versa so that a user who does not have access to the Internet may, nevertheless, provide a Web page and update the Web page via the telecommunications network and so that ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7801113 | Data processing system for setting up communications by selecting user terminals according to their accessibility A data processing system is dedicated to one or more calling users, and comprises (i) storage means (Mi), suited for storing information data indicative of one or more communication addresses of communication terminals (Ci,Ti,FTi) used by the calling user (Ui), and ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7801111 | Capability-based routing In a communications network environment, a distributed software application for monitoring terminal and device capabilities of agents operating on the network and rendering data results of the monitoring to subscribing routing applications is provided. The software ... | 09/21/2010 |
| RE41689 | Apparatus, methods and systems for anonymous communication Anonymous voice communication between a first station and a second station is facilitated by providing an interface that allows input of a transaction specification from at least one of the first and second stations. A reference code associated with the transaction ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7796580 | Method and apparatus for routing information over optical and electrical pathways A system and method of routing communication signals is provided. A first technique uses a packet switched device that operates using Internet Protocol, the packet switched device determines one or more commands based on a routing request to establish, maintain, res... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7796582 | Method and apparatus for supporting access network (AN) authentication Methods and apparatus are presented herein for allowing a keyless access terminal (AT) to access a packet serving data node (PSDN) over a service network stream without deactivating the authentication functions of the authentication network stream. ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7796581 | Automated route control for a communication network A route manager queries network elements to identify egress routes and external nodes coupled to the network elements. The route manager queries a database to identify telephone numbers associated with the external nodes. For each telephone number associated with an... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7792097 | Static, dynamic and intelligent VRF routing for services traffic A system for determining static, dynamic and intelligent Virtual Route Forwarding routing for services traffic includes a data device and a network processing device. The network processing device is configured to: receive a data transmission from the data device, a... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7792094 | System and method to provide services from a communication network to a media-delivery network via a host device connected to the media-delivery network The present invention relates to a system and method for integrating telecommunications and cable networks for the purpose of providing telephone services to a cable host device over a cable network. The methods include registering a cable host device to receive tel... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7792095 | VoIP and associated data delivery Implementations are described that are capable of adding information associated with one or more items and/or products to a virtual shopping cart associated with an entity, such as a customer browsing a website. The described implementations may detect a request to ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7792096 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for distributed resource allocation among clustered media gateways in a communications network Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer program products for distributed resource allocation between media gateways (MGs) in a cluster of MGs. According to one method, available resources provided by each MG in a cluster of MGs controlled by a media gateway con... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7792092 | Data transmission method and a network element The invention is concerned with transmission of speech information over mixed networks, particularly over a segment using packet transmission in an otherwise circuit switched data transmission network. According to the invention, PCM transmission lines are connected... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7792093 | Method, system, and apparatus for providing wireless identification to standard telephone An analog telephone adapter (ATA) having a subscriber identity component in the format of a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) that couples a telephone to a cellular network via Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), thereby allowing a cellular service provider to provi... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7787445 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for routing and processing ENUM queries The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer program products for routing ENUM queries to an ENUM database. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for routing ENUM queries to an ENUM database. Th... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7787442 | Communication statistic information collection apparatus A communication statistic information collection apparatus comprises a unit for searching a flow table for a flow entry corresponding to a searching key, a unit for collecting statistics information for each of flows, a unit for generating a packet for notifying a c... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7787443 | Method and apparatus for allowing peering relationships between telecommunications networks A method for provisioning a peering relationship between the multimedia networks in a telecommunications system. The method comprises registering a customer with at least one of the multimedia networks; constructing the customer's mapping and routing data (including... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7787439 | Method and systems for providing enhanced television services A system and method for allowing an end-user to interact with a system in order to execute an application. Multiple digital service packets are broadcast to a plurality of end-users, such that the upstream transmission of data from end-users is greatly reduced. Each... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7787440 | Method for call setup using short data bursts A first wireless device may connect to a wireless telecommunications network, and it may communicate with the wireless telecommunications network over an air interface signaling channel. The first wireless device may exchange messages with a second device, such as a... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7787444 | Enhancement of dual transfer mode when circuit switched resources are released A method and mobile terminal are disclosed for use in a wireless communication system in order for the mobile terminal to be able to transition from a dual mode, in which a packet switched connection and circuit switched connection are used together, to a single mod... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7787441 | Communication system, method for registering a communication relationship and gateway computer A communication system is proposed which, as its communication elements (KE) has a gatekeeper (GK), a gateway (GW) coupled to the gatekeeper (GK) and at least one communication unit (KEH) coupled to the gateway (GW), with the communication system being set up so tha... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7782842 | Methods and apparatus to perform outdial communication services Methods and apparatus to perform outdial communication services are disclosed. A disclosed method to route an outdial call from a first communication device to a first endpoint comprises receiving an indial call setup from a second endpoint at the first communicatio... | 08/24/2010 |
